Stereotypes In The Story Of An Hour By Kate Chopin

Women shouldn’t be portrayed as a stereotypical women examples like cooking, cleaning and caring for the whole family. Women should be portrayed as strong people and not weak individual they shouldn’t be focused on the typical women stereotypes and they should become focus on what they want to do and achieve instead of focusing on the typical women stereotypes.
The story “The Story of an Hour” by Chopin about this character named Mrs. Mallard who has heart disease and then later in the story she finds out that her husband dies from a train accident. She was in tears and crying for days and never wanted to leave her room. One day she realized that she doesn’t really need her husband anymore and now she’s free as a women and she doesn’t have stick to her stereotypes anymore and she can do anything she wants now and she can achieve what she wants to achieve. She was finally happy for once in her life. Later in the story she finally gets to see her husband he wasn’t actually dead. He wasn’t one of the people who were a part of the accident. She was so happy to see him but then the ironic part was then she dies because of heart disease. Story of an
Mallard was emotional and sad before and now she realized that she’s free because she can do anything she wants now and doesn’t and doesn’t need to stick to her stereotypes that society thinks that we should all stick too. This shows that she’s strong and not actually weak. This is shown when the text says “she was beginning to recognize this thing that was approaching to process her, and she was striving to beat it back with her with as a powerless as her two while slender hands would have been” While the story talk about how she’s weak and not strong about the death of her husband, she can’t take the new but in this quote it shows that she’s actually stronger than that. The author purpose shows that women shouldn’t be treated as what society thinks about what women should